I have been cautioned against taking a "line of credit" to pay off high interest credit card balances. Instead, I have been encouraged to keep using the 0% interest credit card offers for as long as it is offered at zero %. These cards are a dime of dozen these days.
As with anything in life, it is what you don’t know that hurts you. If I embark in doing the card hopping strategy, I don’t know what the long term consequences are in using these 0% offers. So, I kindly ask you the following questions:
1. Will it hurt my credit rating? Right now I have a very good credit score. I pay all my bills on time. It is the finance charges that are killing me.
2. Should I close the expiring 0% card as I open the new 0% card. At the end of 5 years I don’t want to have a trail of credit cards that are still open balance. Or should I?
I got sick and called off work for about a week and turned to payday loans to cover what days I have missed. I received 0 from three lenders, this means with finance charges, I owe about 00 back to these lenders. I cant afford to pay them back. I knew getting payday advances was not a good idea but I needed the cash at the time. My credit is not in the best standing, is there any way to consolidate this debt to make it more reasonable than to pay the interest rates they provide?
